YOUR heart pounding when James Milner steps up. Your head hurts a little bit, that might be a sign of last night, your head hurts and your heart pounds, and you watch James Milner step up and you are pleased he is there but know what it all means. It means everything....
ABSOLUTE scenes. The big one we have all been waiting for. Liverpool’s win means everything. It means they can be the best team in Europe. It means they can be the best team you have ever seen. The expectations should no longer be managed because this was the...
LIVERPOOL go 0-1 down in the wind and the hail and you wonder if they are going to break. It’s cycling up a mountain, a Tour de France stage with yellow jerseys and polkadot tops, loons running alongside the bikes. Cycling up a mountain and teeth are gritted,...
WELL that wasn’t a barrel of laughs. Very, very far from it. When Jürgen Klopp arrived at Anfield he said that, when coming up against stronger opponents, his aim would be to drag them down to our level and kill them. Today Marco Silva can reflect on managing...
IT could well be Liverpool’s best performance of the season. Off the back of one of the most disappointing, that is quite something, off the concern rattling around the diaspora it is everything. It is what happens when a unit is genuinely resilient, what...
WHAT did it feel like? What was it? How did it feel? It felt like two dropped. It felt increasingly frustrating. It felt like bad subs. It felt like Ferguson at Anfield. Where we are United and they are us. What it was? The point that puts us top. Four points from...
HOW do you deal with pressure? How do you take the expectation and make something of it? Liverpool didn’t have all the answers tonight, but at what is ostensibly half time in this Champions League fixture, the question is very much set. Pressure is what Bayern Munich...
NORMAL service resumed? In a sense, yes. Liverpool cruise to victory against reasonable mid-table opposition, keeping a clean sheet, the question more about how many rather than how. In that normal service sense, Mo Salah hits the bar, elicits a great save and scores....
THINGS that are blows: – The lack of chances created. – The equaliser. – The last minute missed opportunity. Things that aren’t blows: – The league table. The league table still shows Liverpool top of the pile with a healthy cushion at...
LIVERPOOL v Manchester City — the prevailing battle. Liverpool v Leicester City — the evening’s affair. Mathematics v Feelings — the inner struggle. Had both Liverpool and Manchester City won you’d be bouncing, but we’d be as you...
Press Conference Extra looks at the wider context around Arne Slot’s media briefing before Liverpool’s Champions League tie against Real Madrid at Anfield.
